Abner Kneeland papers, 1812-1920.

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Abner Kneeland papers, 1812-1920.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70192312

This collection consists of a record book containing mostly manuscript notes and sermon passages (1812-1920); photocopies of a day book (1826-1832); and a file of documents related to Kneeland's blasphemy case.

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State Historical Society of Iowa, Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8011327

State Historical Society of Iowa, Library

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Kneeland, Abner, 1774-1844

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Abner Kneeland was a pioneer evangelist and Baptist minister who converted to Universalism. As a Universalist preacher he served several congregations before he embraced the skeptical religious ideas of utopian industrialist Robert Owen. In the years that followed his free thinking ideas offended the Universalists and in 1833 he was accused of being an atheist and charged with blasphemy. He served 60 days in a Boston jail for the blasphemy offense, the last man in the United States for be jailed...